Lot 22
  • 22

Will Ashton

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 AUD
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Description

  • Will Ashton
  • RUE MOUFFETARD
  • Signed WILL ASHTON (lower left)
  • Oil on canvas on composition board
  • 37 by 44.5cm
  • Painted circa 1925

Provenance

S. H. Ervin, Sydney
Artarmon Galleries, Sydney
The late Dr and Mrs D. R. Sheumack; purchased from the above in 1958; thence by descent

Exhibited

Exhibition of pictures by Mr Will Ashton, ROI, Sedon Galleries, Melbourne, 6 - 17 April 1937, cat. 36 (as 'Rue Mouftard, Paris')
S. H Ervin Private Collection Loan Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1955, cat. 4
S. H. Ervin Private Collection, Artlovers' Gallery, Sydney, 1958, cat. 4
The D. R. Sheumack Collection of Australian Paintings, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 1983, cat. 4

Literature

Art in Australia, June 1929, pl. 27 (as 'Street in Paris')
Will Ashton, The Life and Work of Sir William Ashton, Sydney: Legend Press, 1961, p. 43 (illus.)
Robyn Christie and Justin Miller, The D.R. Sheumack Collection, Eighty Years of Australian Paintings, Sydney: Sotheby's Australia Pty. Ltd., 1988, pl. 51 (illus.)

Condition

There is some fine surface cracking through parts of the brown buildings and figures (lower right). There is possible mildew (upper right) approx 3cm in length. The work appears in good stable condition, however, would benefit from a light surface clean.
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